Want to help your students keep their brains sharp this summer? Send home these free summer math review sheets! These one-page math sheets include a problem of the day for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Math Review: Problem of the Day While we always want our students practicing math and reading skills over the summer, it can sometimes be too much. After all, kids need summer break, too! That's why this is a quick, one-page problem of the day that your students can complete in just a few minutes. Encourage parents and families to reinforce the skill each day. Did ... read more
Math With Playing Cards
Right now many teachers and families are learning how to cope with this new normal of working from home, distance learning, and so much more. I know it's an incredibly stressful time! I wanted to give teachers and families a fun way to practice math skills at home with just a simple deck of playing cards! When schools first started closing due to coronavirus, my friend Alisha from Missing Tooth Grins and I knew we wanted to help. We put together 40 free pages of math & literacy printables for first and second grade. (You can still grab them here for free if you want them!) ... read more
Differentiating Math Centers Easily
During guided math, my students went to 3 math rotations a day. Teacher table, independent work, and math centers. I love, love, LOVE using math centers in the classroom! I loved meeting with my small groups at teacher table and teaching each small group at an appropriate level. Then, students would leave teacher table and complete differentiated independent work. There was just one problem staring me right in the face. My third rotation: Math centers. Differentiating math centers was not happening in my classroom. (PS - I'm giving away a free math center at the end of this ... read more
Fact Fluency Friday Activities
I don't know about you, but I love Fridays. There's something about the happiness of a Friday that makes us as teachers change things up a little bit. In my 2nd grade classroom we always had "Free Choice Friday" for the last 20 minutes of the day, but in the morning, I wanted a new tradition. That's when I started with Fact Fluency Friday! Plus, I'm sharing a free board game you can download at the end of this post! While I'll share how I did this with 2nd grade, you can start Fact Fluency Fridays at ANY grade! The 2nd grade standards require students to build addition and subtraction ... read more
The Teacher Mom Struggle
Being a teacher and a mom can be quite a struggle. If you're anything like me, it's hard to balance being a teacher mom! Back when I was pregnant, my husband and I used to joke that when we had our daughter, I'd be "in charge" of the early education. You know, baby/toddlerhood all the way to about 5th grade. He'd take over at 6th grade and get her through high school. We said we'd tackle college together. Well, now our daughter is two and I find it SO interesting having the perspective of TEACHER and MOM. Holy moly. Mash those two together and being a teacher mom is a blessing and a ... read more
Introducing Multiplication Activities & Ideas
At the end of second grade or beginning of 3rd grade, it's usually time to start introducing multiplication! If I had a quarter for every time a 2nd grader asked me when we were going to learn multiplication I'd be... well, I'd have a decent number of quarters. But in all honesty, my 2nd graders always wanted to learn multiplication because it is BIG KID STUFF. Introducing Multiplication with a Number Talk So you know what I like to do during one of my first multiplication lessons? I just don't tell them we're about to do multiplication! Instead, I start our math mini-lesson with a ... read more
Teaching Addition Strategies: A Free Guide
I am so excited to share with you my very first FREE email series all about teaching addition strategies! Teaching Addition Strategies: Goodbye Standard Algorithm If you're a 1st or 2nd grade teacher, you should definitely be saying SEE YA LATER to the standard algorithm. Listen, I'm not saying you can't show it to your students. But I AM saying we're doing our students a disservice if we're not helping them develop deeper STRATEGIES for addition. I don't know about you, but when I'm adding numbers mentally, I very rarely visualize the standard algorithm in my head. It's ... read more
Teaching Students How to Research
Welcome to part two all about teaching students how to research! If you missed part one, I talked specifically about animal research reports. Today I want to share with you one of the ways I taught my 2nd grade students how to research. This method is great to use in any elementary classroom. Teaching Students How to Research with the Envelope Method Teaching students how to research can be difficult, so one way I've taught my students to do so is by using the envelope method. Important note: I model this with my students before they do this on their own! How It Works: First, ... read more
Animal Research Reports
Teaching students about animal research reports is one of my favorite writing units! It's the perfect combination of nonfiction reading and informational writing - all in one perfect unit of study! I've got so much to share with you that I'm splitting this into two posts! You can find part two here! Getting Started with Animal Research Reports To begin, I try to teach nonfiction text features and research writing at the same time. It's also perfect for reviewing main idea and details in informational texts. First, I choose an animal that I think my students will enjoy learning ... read more
Cause and Effect Activities
About a year ago, I had a teacher ask me if I had any resources with mysteries similar to my main idea mysteries. At the time I didn't have any, but now I'm happy to say I've made a new mystery all about... Cause and effect! These cause and effect activities and mysteries are a hit! Cause and Effect Activities - The Mystery Cause and effect mysteries are the perfect introductory activity when teaching cause and effect. To set up the mysteries, you'll need 6 envelopes. I used small manila envelopes, but you could use anything! Inside each envelope place four clue cards. Students ... read more
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